Union Budget 2025: Will 10K new medical seats curb students outflow?

The government's announcement in the Union Budget to create 10,000 additional seats in medical colleges next year has been welcomed by education experts and stakeholders, saying the move will......

Doctors end strike after SC appeal, but not in Bengal

The protests by resident doctors at government hospitals in several states across the country ended on Thursday as major doctors' associations called off their 11-day strike over the rape-murder of......

CBI takes over Kolkata doctor's rape-murder probe

Hours after the Kolkata high court's direction, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday took over the investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor at a state-run......

Doctor's murder: Protest enters Day 3, hospital services remain affected

The protest over the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata entered its third day on Wednesday disrupting healthcare services in several states across the country, even as a......

Srikant Datar, 2nd Indian to be named Dean of Harvard Business School

Eminent Indian-origin academician Srikant Datar has been named as Dean of Harvard Business School, succeeding Nitin Nohria and becoming the second consecutive dean hailing from India to lead the......

IIT alumni are opening their wallets wide to give back despite Covid-19

While the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur may have attracted among the highest donations by an individual (former student and IndiGo Airlines co-founder Rakesh Gangwal) at Rs 100 crore......

Why reduce IIM fees?

The recent lowering of tuition fees of Indian Institutes of Managements to Rs 30,000 per year from Rs 1,50,000 per year as required by the Minister of Human Resources Development is hard to......

India's mushrooming medical cities

In August 1883, the quiet American city of Rochester came tumbling down under a tornado. As 24 people breathed their last, 40 others were left gasping for breath and medical care. The disaster......

COVID positive Milkha Singh stable in ICU; wife's condition deteriorates

IMAGE: Milkha Singh received a phone call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi enquiring about his health on Friday.. Photograph: Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh......

Mary Kom relieved after son's successful heart surgery

World champion boxer M C Mary Kom was a relieved mother after as her ailing son underwent "successful" heart surgery in Chandigarh on Wednesday. - ' I was born to do boxing only' Mary, who won......